RE: Fantasy combat with DS2?

It is interesting to read that people from across the pond have a
similar   
feelings about 'that fantasy company'. I have recently been told of a	
rather nasty business practice thay have. It goes something like:

Get a local games shop to stock your product. When the sales of your   
product in that area via this shop reach a certain threshold set up your
  
own store just down the road and then stop supplying the local game
store	
with your products.

Not a very friendly thing to do really. I gather this has been
challenged   
in the courts in th US and declared illegal. I am no solicitor/lawyer
but   
I think that is a fair judgement.

It would be great if a right minded business man was to set up a rival. 
 
There many things 'that fanatasy company'  do well. They supply
excellent   
paint encourage games in their shops which are always clean tidy and
very   
well laid out.

I only wish I had the backing as I would give it a go. There is money to
  
be made and at the moment it is almost all  going to one place.

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Subject:  Re: Fantasy combat with DS2?

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>Mr. Elliot,

Call me Mike, please!

>I was just curious - do you or Jon Tuffley have any plans to do a   
Fantasy
>combat game using the Full Anorak system.  I know you don't want to be 
 
too
>much like "That other British Company" but they sure could use some
>competition on all fronts.

No, GZG is a purely SF related company, Jon leaves fantasy to other   
people
(its just not his thing).

>I have been converting DS2 to a fantasy warfare type game for my own
>enjoyment - I've even enlisted some play-testers and we've been having 
 
fun
>with it.  I'm busy now getting the rules all written out in a readable
>form (i.e. -  not my chicken-scratch handwriting).

Great. How about posting it to the list soemtime or putting it on a Web
page somewhere?

>Thanks for listening and for your presence on the Full Thrust list,

>Nick Caldwell, a very satisfied Ground Zero Grognard from across the	
pond
>cncald`aol.com

Thanks for your kind words,

Mike Elliott, GZG